TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1904, Page 6

TO-DAY'S PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. The Hon. W. Bolt gave notice to move that tho Licensing Bill be recommitted in order that clause 53 (bringing clubs under the Licensing Acts) may be amended in the direction of providing that dubs may remain open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., except on Sundays. WAIPORI PALLS. The second .reading of the Waipori Falls Electric Power Bill was moved by the Hon. W. Bolt. This is a Bill to enable the Waipori Falls Electric Power Company to supply electrical energy for lighting, power, heat, and other purposes'in Dunedin and its environs. The second reading was agreed to. BUSINESS. The Attorney-General moved that the Council, on rising to-day, adjourns until 2.30 p.m. on Monday. Some discussion took place on the question, some members urging that the Council should not meet before 7.30 p.m., an amendment in this direction being lost on the voices. The Attorney-General then moved that the Standing Orders be so far suspended as to allow Local Bills, after being re-, ported from the Local Bills Committee, to pass through all their remaining' stages at one sitting. (Left sitting.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30 p.m., Mr. T. Mackenzie brought up the report of the Extension of Commerce Committee on the -contract with the Federal Steam Ship Company for the West of England service (as reported elsewhere). Mr. Duthie said from lack of evidence the Committee had been unable to grasp the full bearings of the case. The only witness called was the Acting Head of the Department of Commerce, who had not been long in that position. He (Mr. Duthie) did not think the finding of the Committee meVthe case at all. He moved as an amendment to the effect that the service was not in the best interest of the colony. (Left sitting.)